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    Commercial vans.

    From the book Birmingham at Work
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    Needless Alley by Natalie Marlow.

    Needless Alley by Natalie Marlow Fiction novel set in inter-war Birmingham “Private enquiry agent William Garrett, a man damaged by a dark childhood spent on Birmingham's canals, specialises in facilitating divorces for the city's male elite……..Drenched in evocative period atmosphere and...
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    Birmingham Canal Boatmen: struggle for improved working conditions.

    There are other threads concerning Birmingham boatmen, but not a general one about the conditions of work. This picture from the British Waterways Board and featuring in the book “The great days of the canals” by Burton, Anthony (1995) shows a group of Birmingham boatmen in 1895 who were either...
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    AVERY SCALES HISTORY

    Messrs W and T Avery, were at Digbeth Since at least 1833.
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    Scotland Street.

    John Moffat, brassfounder, chamber and pillar candlestick and snuff maker of Scotlands Works, Scotland Street. (c.1849 to 1860.)
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    Coleshill Street.

    Coleshill Street, 5th October 1950.
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    Commercial Street.

    Commercial Street, 14 June 1962. Much different today.
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    Rubery Quarry, Cock Hill Lane.

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    Online: Historic England Aerial Photo Explorer

    You can explore over 400,000 digitised photos taken from our aerial photo collections of over 6 million photographs preserved in the Historic England Archive. https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/archive/collections/aerial-photos/
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    TV Programme BBC2 : DNA Family Secrets.

    TV Programme BBC2, DNA Family Secrets starts Tuesday 19 April. Second series of Six episodes hosted by Stacy Dooley.
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    The France and Germany Star Medal amongst some of my mother’s memorabilia.

    Found this France and Germany Star Medal.
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    Book: Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery & Colonial Africa (Catherine Higgs, 2012.)

    Richard and George Cadbury took over the firm in 1861 and started to invest in cocoa. 1901 William Cadbury read a brochure about the sale of a cocoa plantation on the Portuguese Island of São Tomé and Príncipe, which included in the sale were 200 black labourers. William Cadbury had heard...
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    Waterworks house and pumping station Erdington

    This is the OS Map published in 1914, would the house be the one shown across the road from the Golden Cross ?
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    Chinese History in Birmingham

    There doesn’t seem to much concerning the Chinese influence in Birmingham. The Birmingham Libraries Iron Room have produced an article... https://theironroom.wordpress.com/2021/02/09/chinese-history-in-birmingham/
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    Where is it, Outside Birmingham #10

    Another ruin, but where ?
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    Where is it, Birmingham #13

    Found this picture amongst those for Cheddar Gorge, but have a feeling it could be the gardens in Aston Park. There is a statue and a block of flats that may help...
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    Magazine: Edgbastonian Monthly Local magazine

    On the Union Club Colmore Row Thread there is a reference to The Edgbastonian Local Magazine... https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/the-union-club-colmore-row.49476/post-699342 An interesting publication that first appeared in May 1881...
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    Where is it, outside Birmingham #9

    This picture was amongst some from Stratford...
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    Where is it, Outside Birmingham #8

    Another picture from the 60s, anyone recognise this magnificent building?
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    Where is it, Birmingham # 12

    Could this could this be another from Drayton Manor ?
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